Politics: Mayor Bloomberg threw open his Upper East Side townhouse for a fundraiser for Borough President — and potential mayoral hopeful — Marty Markowitz on Wednesday, drawing a crowd of 80 or so well-heeled donors and boosting the still undeclared campaign of the term-limited Beep. Comment

Downtown plan: Brooklyn’s tallest office building was sold on Wednesday for $107.5 million to Manhattan’s largest office landlord — and the new owner immediately distanced himself from rumors that the building be converted to luxury residential use like many others in the neighborhood. Comment

Politics: It’s the dude versus the narc: Two Brooklyn lawmakers — one a former Soviet engineer, the other a former police officer — are hashing it out over a bill to make marijuana legal for medicinal use. Comment

Transit: Nearly 2,000 F line straphangers have signed a petition demanding restored express train service on the slow-moving line whose name is often used as an abbreviation for an epithet. But don’t trade in that Jonathan Lethem tome for a People magazine just yet — Transit officials say that F riders won’t lose any reading time for at least another five years. Comment

Triple-threat Cyclones coverage

Cyclones: Wait ’til this year! Avenging the 18–0 loss to the hated Staten Island Yankees on last season’s Opening Night, the Brooklyn Cyclones drew first blood this year against their cross-Narrows rivals with a thrilling 5–1 victory on Tuesday night. The Brooklyn Paper’s video captures the action. Comment

Cyclones: Before last week, Cyclones pitcher Dylan Owen had only been on a plane two times in his entire life. But now that he’s a Cyclone, everything has changed for the South Carolina backwoodsman. Comment

Letters: Our full mailbag includes letters about Borough President Markowitz’s purge of Community Board 6 members, the annual hot dog-eating contest in Coney Island, Bay Ridge’s historic Green Church, a claim that The Brooklyn Paper is sexist (what else is new?!), and concern about God. Comment

Downtown plan: A city-funded report that denies any Underground Railroad activity along Duffield Street isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, said a handful of historians, Councilmembers and ticked off residents at a rally on Tuesday. Comments (1)

Park Slope: Detectives hunting the thieves who hit a chain drugstore on Flatbush Avenue on June 13 might want to call in the bloodhounds: the two men stole almost $2,000 in perfumes. Plus all the other crime from Park Slope! Comment

Carroll Gardens: The “For Sale” sign above a century-old Atlantic Avenue hole in the wall is stirring new memories of the Mohawk Indian ironworkers who once occupied the saloon’s long, wooden bar. Comments (1)

Bay Ridge: Dating this dad can be hazardous to your health. That is the message to potential father suitors, after a 48-year-old woman was sent to the hospital by a young lady angry over the fact that she was dating her dad, cops said. Plus all the other crime news from Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge. Comment

Downtown: Two men — who may have been armed — forced a Brooklyn Heights man to withdraw $800 from an ATM before ordering him to drive them to Manhattan on June 16. Plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights, Downtown and DUMBO. Comment

Fort Greene: He wasn’t just cycling for his health: A man on a bicycle ambushed a woman on June 12 just after 9 am, and snatched her pocketbook at the corner of Quincy and Classon avenues. Plus all the other crime news from Clinton Hill and Fort Greene. Comment

Rezoning: Fort Greene and Clinton Hill leaders presented a united front before the City’s Planning Commission on Wednesday — despite some internal squabbling — in a push to get the city to restrict building size in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Comment

Fitness: Our Classified Sales Manager Adam El-Sheemy is undertaking the “Boot Camp Challenge,” a grueling, thrice-weekly workout regimen set up by two personal trainers. Every week, he’ll give us an update on how he’s doing. Here is how he fared during his third week. Comments (1)

Downtown: The Department of Transportation has agreed to do a study of the traffic-choked intersection of Tillary and Adams streets in Downtown Brooklyn — the result of protests by local seniors who say that current light timing doesn’t give them enough time to cross the street. Comment

Bay Ridge: New 68th Precinct commanding officer Eric Rodriguez parked the NYPD’s mobile command post on the eastern side of his precinct last week — and promptly got an earful from hundreds of residents who took advantage of his visit. Comment